Some mostly unknown artists to check out
Enur - Sarah just turned me on to this a few minutes ago. Only one track there but it’s a pretty dance-y little track that I kind of dig. Plus the album art is alright by me.
Faunts - I found out about this group because they did the closing credits music for Mass Effect. I liked the song enough that I waited till the end of the credits to find out who did it and then immediately Googled them. Not surprisingly the comments are full of people like me that heard about them because of the music at the end of Mass Effect. The track in question is M4 Part II, which is in their MySpace player. Their other stuff is also pretty good. Normally I don’t go for much Indie music, but this is pretty solid.
Penelope Fortier - I heard about her from this MasterCard commercial. I was intrigued for a few reasons. First, I love that song, especially because of John Coltrane’s jazzy rendition. I also played the song in high school on sax, so I really dig it. Second, she is very pretty. (Yeah yeah.) Third, she has an amazing quality to her voice that I really like. I looked into it a little more and it she’s done a couple other commercials as well, the most notable one that I can recall was was the RadioShack commercial where the guy has eight million albums laying around and she says he needs to do something about it. When she returns some time later all the music is playing on an iPod. She did another one for Verizon that I didn’t like as much. Regardless, check out some of her other stuff on the MySpace profile. She is really quite talented.
